Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1889, Page 7

ORIENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY. BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN SEALS. Carved Amulets of Great Va- riety in the National Museum. HE royal seal of a king of Babylon. It may be three or four thousand years old; it is not less than two thousand five undred, No one knows who the king was, but he lived a long time ago and was, doubtless, very powerful. As you hold # in your hand today it is the same as when used by this monarch of antiquity. It is one of the rarest of the collection of Babylonian and Assyrian seals in the section of biblical archwology at the national museum. It is little cylinder of sapphirine chalcedony coveref with fine drill work. The inscription Fepresents a beardiess divinity standing on a Pedestal; a star shining over the head proves it to be Istar. She is armed with a bow and quiver, drawn within the aureola which en- cireles her. A robed male figure with long beard and curling hair falling over his shoulders stands before her in attitude of adoration, Another scene represents the god Marduk pur- suing with his arrow Tiamat, the sea dragon. Beneath this is inscribed the name “Marduk- ger-iddin. scribe to the king.” This seal was found in the vicinity of Bagdad in 1854. The section of oriental antiquities is one of the most recently established of the sections in the museum. one of great interest as well. d in 1888, with Prof. Paul Haupt, Ph.D., professor of the Semitic lan- guages in Johns Hopkins university, as honor- ary curator, and Cyrus Adler, Ph.D., instructor in Semitic language, as honorary assistant cu- rator. Johns Hopkins university and the mu- suem have bee king together in this field of oriental archeology. been the active longer “:honorary the section. The purpose is to have a collec- tion of casts from the objects of oriental arch- ology in America from which a student may study. When this section was first established it was with the intention of collecting in one lace copies of all the smaller Assyrian and Babyionian objects preserved in this country. ‘The originals were to be borrowed from owners fora short time and copied in fac simile and flat impressions—one set for the museum, one for Johns Hopkins university, and one for the owner of the collection. In 64 Prof. Baird had offered him a collec- tion of seals owned by Dr, Isreal Diehl, from which to make copies for the museum, The value of the collection does not seem to have been understood, and Prof. Baird wrote to President Gilman of the Johns Hopkins uni- versity, then professor at Yale, telling him of the seals and asking as to their value. Some how or other the seals never reached Mr. Gilman and the matter dropped out of mind. In ’ss, after Prof. Baird’s death, Mr. Gilman came across this letter, and Mr. Adler was sent on here to look into the subject. Nothing was known at the museum about the seals. Mr. Adler knew that Dr. Diehl was a Methodist missionary, and he sought through the Methodist conference, then in session at Baltimore, to find him, but with- out success. Search where he might, the doctor and the rare seals seemed to be lost be- yond discove One day Mr. Adler happened to speak of his unsuccessful search to Bishop Newman in this city. “Why,” said the bishop, “Mrs. Diehl left my house but yesterday.” He then gave Mr. Adler the lady's address in New York, where Mr. Adler found her and got from her a rare lot of Assyrian and Ba ian seals, though not, perhaps, all that had belonged to the original collection. The originals of these seals are still in the possession of the museum and are rare treasures, In ‘87 part of a collection made by Rey. W. ¥. Williams, an American missionary at Mosul, BLACK QBELISK oF 3 SHALMANESER IT y, “0 OLTANLS OF CARVING, was placed at the disposal of the museum to be sopied, it having been reduced in size by Mrs. Diehl’s kindness in making presents to her friends. These seals are made of hard semi-precious stones, either engraved or drilled; some of the finest work is done with a drill, The charac- ters are cut into the stone (very small), so that the impression, like that of ordinary seals, is raised. The seal usually is a cylinder and is tolled on the softer substance to make the im- Ea. Both the cylindrical seals and the ressions are shown in the collection. The are made of agate, hematite, carnelian, shaleedony, obsidian, aragonite, agalmatolite, Moss agate and other hard stone. Except the one royal seal, these are all indi- vidual seals used in sealing documents, &c. ‘The characters on them represent gods or pa — sainta, —- and symbols, and each — sup, to have been peculiarly the of = tnaiedal and all ia have illred hare ristically. Contracts, . mortgages, and all sorts of documents were written clay hg op lus, the seals rolled FEF Tit i 7 : : iy i i i I were probably « family of Jewish exiles who did not only a large “private” banking business but negotiated the revenues of the crown. ASSYRIAN SLAB 3 sé. (WINGED FiGuRe BéDRE THe SACRED TREY The collection of fac —— Pres —. rapidly growing. During the past few mon there have been received for copy the follow- ing collections A single specimen from Mr, A. N. Andrus interesting in that it shows the weapons. It Assyrian seal iF seem | king with a sword in his hand and a horned animal by the throat about to slay it, . Asmall collection is from E. C. Dawes of Ohi: One is the figure of a swan, with the lower sur- face inscribed with a priest and symbols of the sun and the moon. The collection of Prof. skill of the Assyrians in representing animalse— gazelle, African antelope. lion, horse, &c. One of the seals from a collection belonging to Miss M. W. Bruce of New York represents a scene from the Nimrod epic—Nimrod struggling with the lion and the bull. One with the figures greatly obliterated hason it an inscription: C. Marsh shows the ~ ASSYRIAN SLAB — (A ROYAL ENCAMPMENT ) “Kitiranu, son of Ishumirni, servant of the god Rimmon.” Mr. Adler thinks these seals were originally amulets, not carved, and that later, as the As- syrians and Babylonians advanced in civiliza- tion, they carved thereon the images of their gods or patron saints, still leter using them as seals. The figures are largely saythological. The seals were carried usually fastened to the wrist. An interesting object is 4 fac simile of the famous black obelisk of the time of Shalmane- ser. king of Assyria, 860-824 B.C. The original is in the British museum. It contains an account of the wars of Shalmaneser in cuneiform writ- ing and relief. It gives an account of the de- feat of the confederacy of the Syrian kings (of whom Ahab was one) by Shalmaneser, and is for Bible history the most important Asayrian monument yet found. The relief should be read around the monument in horizontal bands, HEAD OF MUMMY OF Ramses iL Bust. of Ramses |? (THe pranaon OF THE OPPRESSION) y There is also a cast of the Egg of Sargon, the original marble of which, now in the British ™ um, was discovered Abu-Habba, the biblical Sepharvaim. It is a peculiarly inter- esting object, reckoned to be of the period 3300 B.C. The incription reads: “I, Sargon, king of Agade, to Samas in Sippar dedicate this.” This Egg of Sargon represents the city of Akkad, mentioned in Genesis. The date, 3300 B.C.. is fixed by the discovery of an in- scription by Nabonidus, the last king of Baby- lon, who was an archeologist. Nabonidus de- seribes his digging at the foundation of the “ancient” temple of the sun and the inscrip- tion he found there in a way to fix the date of the time of Sargon. It seems rather odd to find in our archeological research a king of antiquity, who proclaims himself an archwolo- gist, digging into a deeper antiquity. Copies of two Assyrian slabs of alabaster in possession of the Episcopal theological semi- nary at Alexandria, Va., which were brought from Mosul in 1860 enrich the collection. One of the tablets found by Dr. Haskell in 1360 represents a royal figure in con- ventional garb of Assyrian art standing be- fore the sacred tree. The figure has wings and is dressed in kingly robes. He has a cone in one hand and a weight in the othey. It is the figure of King Asumazerpal, who reigned 831-560 B.C. Another Assyrian slab is quite ting on account of its representing do- mestic affairs, or, rather, the domestic side of camp life. The scene is laid, apparently, in camp before the walls of some city. In the background is the wall of two camels are kneeling at rest, man is at work on some domestic preparation; two goats are lying peacefully by. In the f a shown the interior of ro} ki has just entered, with his and spear in one hand. He is lifting up the front of his helmet, while an attendant ad- Yances towaré him with a flagon of water. Another attendant is engaged in a couch for him, while in an adjoining tent an- is tent. iB Thield on his back sy Oa a a it episode, of which it is related in II Kings, xviil, 14, that Hezekiah sent s to the of Assyria at Lachish. dificult the shriveled face of the mummy and the hand- some and youthful King Rameses shown in the bust. It wo ab to imagine a Stans Las sents an it portrait of the as looked in life. Some of the Egyptian study heads, statugs, pottery and ornaments are attractive features of the collection. Some of the busts are i i for the artistic merit they display. The study heads were made of clay by the Egyptian sculptors, as our artists of today make small study heads, and the larger GYPTIAN. ORNAMENTS & SCARABAE!. heads were made with this as a to the eye of the artist, The human features and form are wonderfully well por- trayed. All these heads and busts were made in likeness of individuals they were intended to represent and there is no reason to doubt that they were generally as correct as are busts of individuals of the present day. There is an Egyptian head, with helmet, sup- posed to be Amenophis IV, 1500 B.C.. who called himself Chu-en-aten. Another head is of about the period 2400 B.C., discovered at Kar- nak. There is also the cast of the bust of Ameno- phis I, who lived about 1700 B.C. = The Egyptians placed over the face of their onmitel dant a mask, which it is fair to as- sume was a good likeness of the deceased. The ceremony of laying away the dead involved the use of various vessels, and the collection of this pottery and the mummy masks present curious objects of interest. The Egyptian or- namentgand scarabai are not especially rare. ‘The sce®.bwi are often seen at the present day hanging to chains as watch charms. They were worn by the Egyptians as charms also. -—— eee. ANTIQUITY OF THE GLOVE. An Emblem of Power and of Purity, of Defiance and Subjection. From the Haberdasher. No article of attire has more of interest in its associations and history than gloves, for while the interest attaching to most other garments has been mainly that of utility, to gloves has been attached a varied and wide-spread sym- bolism, giving them an exalted place and linking them with many curious observ- ances—regal, ecclesiastical, military and social. The glove has been the emblem of power and of purity, of defiance and subjection, Lands and personal property were once conveyed by the delivery of a glove; the authority of kings over provinces was attested by presenting a glove; kings invested barons with dominion by bestowing on the favorite one of the kingly gloves, and many ecclesiastical and legal cere- could only be performed with white gloves, the emblems of purity. The ‘antiquity of gloves ia very great; they doubtless antedated history, for the earliest lit- erature alludes to them, and they have been known and worn from’ the earliest ages of which we have any knowledge. Homer, inthe “Odyssey,” describes Laertes, the farmer king, the father of Ulysses, in his retirement: “While gloves secured his hands to shield them from the thorns,” Xenophon jeers at the Per- sians for wearing gloves as a protection from the cold; not only did they have um- brellas borne over them in summer, not being content with the shade of the trees and rocks, but in the winter it is not sufticient for them to clothe their heads and their bodies and their feet, but they have coverings made of hair for their. hands and their fingers. In their earlier days the Greeks and the Romans scorned such effeminacy, but at a later day, in the time of Pliny, the uncle of that lively historian is described as traveling with an amanuensis ‘‘who wore gloves upon his hands in winter lest the severity of the weather should make him lose any time” in writing. From time immemorial the glove has hada legal significance in oriental countries in the transfer of property, just as the “God's penny” was formerly used to “bind a bargain” in the west, A disputed e in the Old Testament— Ruth iv., 7 and reads: “Now this was the manner in former time in Israel, concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to con- firm all things; a man piucked off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor; and this was a testimony in Israel.” It is m com- monly agreed by scholars that the word shoe should be rendered glove, for in the Chal- daic paraphrase the word is rendered ‘‘the case or covering of the right hand,” and, accepting this view, it appears that among the Israelites the ig of a glove was the method of trans- ferring property. Later the glove as a pledge or emblem of conveyance came into use among the Romans, whose ancient law held property to have passed with its literal transfer, or of part of it, into the hand of the purchaser; and the glove, doubtless as a matter of convenience, took the place of and symbolized this actual transfer. — 19. __ The Fiddlers of Cumberland Island. From the Savannah News. ~ A Cumberland correspondent thus describes the fiddlers of that island: ‘After fishing my attention was attracted by an army of fiddlers in the sand. Oh, such funny little folks are the fiddlers! They are a peaceable set, too, and in all the droves and droves that 1 saw marching about on the sands by the inlet I saw only two who were disorderly. They fought a little, but not for long, and the defeated fellow crawled into his hole and the army moved on. A fid- dier looks like a very small crab. Some are blue, others red and brown, and there are black and gray. Some have no claws and others have a great white claw like crab, which they seem to keep time with. They are the drum majors. A fiddler never turns to run. They run backward, to the front and sideways without moving their bodies. = have little hoies all over the sand that reac! to ell, I don’t know, for I gots stick and and dug un’ tired, and I never find the bottom, have hen 4 of making a noise like smac! an folks were kissing.” attern dt sounds sometimes as Rev. Primrose—“You are the strangest little boy Lever saw. While other children of your age are light-hearted and thoughtless, you are always sad.” Little Johnnie—“That’s ‘cause the other fel- Time. “How are the crops doing?” said the ozar to 8 favorite at court, “Pretty fairly, your highness,” was the reply, “although in some quarters the people are com- plaining of too much reign.” “Let them take twenty years in Siberia to Gry up,” answered his majesty, who is quick at Had Heard of It. From Time. (making himself. agreeable)— Professor “Aluminum is s wonderful metal, Mr. Struck- oyle.” J STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.; SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, FUN AT A GIRLS’ SCHOOL. Scandalous Proceedings at a Prim Boston Educational Establishment. MONSIEUR L'ESTOMAC, THE FAT MUSIC TEACHER; THE BAD PUPIL AND THE GOOD PUPIL—FLIRTA- TION ON HIGHLY ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES—TRAG- EDYOF A PINT BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE, Special Correspondence of Tux Evxxre S1an. Bostox, Aug. 7. A scandal almost too horrible to print has leaked out in this quiet vacation time from @ fashionable and ultra-exclusive French board- ing school for young ladies in the Back bay district. The educational establishment in question is maintained by a vestal of intense respectability, though of uncertai® age and temper, whom her pupils know as “Made- moiselle” and describe as resembling in her physical aspect a highly reputable and vir- tuous old bellwether. It might be more aj propriate, however, to compare her to ® dragon as she appears in guardianship of her flock on walks abroad through the city. Nor, when a good-looking young man comes within the perspective on such occasions of formal recreation, does she appear otherwise than as hen gathering her adopted brood about her in solicitude lest the hawk shall swoop down and carry off an incautious fledgling. For it is said that she considers all men to be eseen- tially depraved, not even excepting her w, the fat music teacher, who is the only male permitted—under strict super- vision by his wife—to reside in the institution. This gentleman is an enormous eater, and, owing toa habit he has of talking incessantl; about his stomach—as if that portion of his anatomy was a subject of intense in- terest to every one—the girls never speak of = — hae! gave as ‘ reve ¥ mac,” his spouse being accordingly “Madame ‘L'Estomee, . GATHERING MUSHROOMS. In the early fall of last year, when the mush- rooms were abloom upon the lea in the sub- urban fields of,West Roxbury, monsieur and madame were accustomed to assume charge of expeditions to that rural locality for the pur- pose of gathering the fungus delicacies. Eagerly did the young ladies devote them- ves to the task of searching and plucking, anticipating that the crop thus obtained, when canned by madame’s especial process, was des- tined to serve a dietetic luxury for all the fair scholars during the approaching winter. But alas! Monsieur L’Estomac ate them all. He had them twice a day, prepared in all sorts of ways, from November 1 until spring, while the girls looked on and were never allowed so much as a single champignen with a beefsteak. He was accustomed to remark quite frequently while devouring them that they were “wonder- fully goot for the stummick.” But he did not offer them to anybody else. SPYING UPON THE PUPILS, Monsieur and madame are said in the school to be employed not so much for teaching as for spying upon the pupils to see that the latter do not establish communication of any sort with objectionable creatures of the mas- culine persuasion. Nor is such a task in a se- lect academy for young ladies the easiest to perform. Its successful accomplishment im- plies, to begin with, an unremitting, though unobtrusive, scrutiny of all correspondence. A little steam judiciously applied to the flaps of envelopes is a mild but very effective agent for supplying such ‘information as is calculated to of use to those whose task it is to assume responsibility for the welfare of indiscreet youth. A modicum of mucilage will quickly repair the incidental damage. Then, too, such media for exchanging intelligence as private depositories for billets doux must be looked out for, and a superintendence has necessarily to be exercised even over the glances bestowe; by the constructively innocent charges upon casual young men. There is nothing in a female boarding school so harmless in appedr- ance as not to excite a suspicion of that descrip- tion of naughtiness which implies the partici- pation of an abomination in pantaloons. In other words flirtation is an evil irrepressible wherever the female of the human species is concerned. Surely the Mohammedan theory must be correct that woman is intrinsically wicked and only to be saved through the char- itable intervention of the pious and godlike man. It is by the beard that the prophet jerks the faithful servant into pari and, as erecsbony knows, women have no such ap- pendage. The inference is conclusive. ‘Ma’ AMSELLE LE DIABLE.” Of all the girls in mademoiselle’s school the most difficult to properly control was one from Philadelphia, who came to be better known among her playmates as ‘“Ma’amselle le Diable” designation the fat music teacher conferred upon her in @ moment of anger— than by her own name. She would insist upon turning unladylike somersaults over the a re and, if she were reproved, id as iikely as not lie down upon the floor, bang her head against the nearest piece of furniture, how! loudly and bite any one who attempted to interrupt the pastime. Such things a’ bologna sausage in large hunks were found concealed among her linen, and new pupils looked upon her with awe when they were told that once had actually run away. A PORTLAND FAIRY. In beautiful contrast with ‘Ma’amselle le Diable” was a pretty young woman from Port- land, Me., of fifteen sunny summers, maybe, with really truly blonde hair and the wide blue eyes of trusting unsophistication. At the time of the marge which is nearly the close of the recently ended cen session, this maiden fair ecoupied the enviable position of idol pro tem. You are doubtless aware that in every female boarding school there is always ry gel who is regarded as an object of worship. uring the period of her rule she fe @ little queen, looked up to, petted an& actually adored by all her companions. They squabble for the privilege of her society, copy her dresses, wear ribbons like hers and even insist upon the sacrificing their choicest candies to her appetite. Nor does this o state of affairs come to an end until, in the course of a few weeks or months, a sudden and unaccount- able freak takes the fickle crew and another gz becomes at once the fashion, while the 0: lethroned must needs transform herself into a satellite of the rising star. THE QUEEN ON HER THRONE. At the period spoken of the blonde young lady from Portland had arrived at the utmost elevation of popular favor—so much 40, in- deed, that it was necessary for her to hold a sort of reception every evening at bed time, so that each one of her schoolmates could gratify a desire to imprint a kiss upons certain spot at the back of her neck, which was considered to be astonishingly kissable. In fact, this inter- esting ceremony grew to be so well established that it was impossible to get the Vee to bed until they performed it. And no wonder; for she was a sweetcreature, this maid with yellow Apcey a and ee Ferns rik imagines was ‘cay of en; with the depraved ‘‘Ma’amselle le Diable"4 a scheme of peperaiee naughtiness, the horror of which might well send a virtuous shiver down the serrated backbones of 100,000 unap- propriated Massachusetts’ Speen ‘et such was unhappily the case. Alas, that it should be necessary for the conscientious correspondent to record the awful girls, you know! Butter would not melt in their mouths, you might suppose. it of view they seem ther seraphic, whose very corporeal entities can hardly be ‘mas in 1e o . How quickly would. this illusion be dis- 4 led if o1 ‘eed see the: pr raloden from the culine observation and ions of their own sex in un! Ce ee ee from their dormitory window on the third floor, after tfall, fifty fect or so of stout twine with a big fish hook attached, in quest of what- ever FR roe yo doe ren youths in pg well-timed cab mightcloose to hitch on. lovely anglers—‘sed non an- ~ would doubtless ungallantly—1 for letters only, using missives shaped like sottne hats, which seemed to be a very taking yr Teadi- ness of the “‘bites.” “Then an itive swain beet yaar dude pantaloons and a fawn- colored spring overcoat struck the happily novel idea of employing small boxes of con- fectionery as , With communications in writing inside. These were naturally followed by provender of other descriptions, all of which was hauled up by the same method along the inner angle of the ivy-clad wall to serve as material for midnight feasts not less mh ing to all the girls in point of weird en- joyableness than destructive of the grim and severe precriety which had hitherto been so markedly a characteristic of mademoiselle’s fashionable school for young ladies. THE CHAMPAGNE HUNG UP. One luckless night it chanced that a pint bot- tle of Roederer’s extra-dry champagne was hooked on tothe line and, being pulled up without the care originally adopted to guard inst just such an accident, caught in the thick foliage of the climbing woodbine that covered the front wall of the house. In trying to get it free the twine got tangled about the tough branches of the creeper so as to be se- curely fastened. A desperate jerk and lo! the string broke short off, leaving the bottle hang- ing tothe yine just below the second-story window, for all the world like some new variety of fruit, with its white label jicu- ous d displayed. esc: MONSIEUR’S DISCOVERY. The next morning Monsieur L’Estomac, who had a fine taste for horticulture, was engaged in trimming this very vine, when, casting his eyes upward, he perceived, with an astonish- ment it would be impossible to express in words, the bottle dangling from the woodbine overhead. Up to this time it had not come within the range of his experience to find pints of extra-dry champagne growing from a creeper on the wall of a house. The phenom- enon was at least worth investigating anda long ladder was quickly obtained for the pur- pose. It was the work of a moment for mon- sieur to ascend and cut off the reluctant fruit by severing the string that held it. A few sec- onds later it was undergoing inspection by madame, MADAME’S PUNISHMENT AND FORGIVENESS, Of the inquiry judicial that followed, result- ing in many floods of tears, a vast amount of Tepentance and sentences of expulsion for “Ma’amselle le Diable” and the fair-haired dam- sel from Portland, the writer would rather pare himself the painful details. As for“Ma’am- selle le Diable,” she was shut up in a room for a whole week, during which she spent much of her time banging her head against the door to express her annoyance at the turn affairs had taken. To her schoolmates, however, she remarked through the transom, which’ she vainly tried toclimb out by, that she was only too afraid lest she would not be expelted after all. And such, indeed, proved to be the case, both sentences — re- mitted on the score of mercy. It was possible, mademoiselle said, that even such hardened offenders as they might be capa- ble of reform. She had heard of bank robbers and thugs who turned about and became good citizens after an extended term of residence at Sing Sing. ‘‘Ma’amsele le Diable” declared that mademoiselle’s severity was restrained merely by areluctance to part with two pupils who paid $600 per annum apiece and extras, but this suggestion was doubtless inspired by the resentment incidental to an enforced captivity. Precautions have been taken yhich are likely to effectually prevent any repetition of suc! scandalous occurrences in the school, and the above story would doubtless never have leaked out had it not been for an indiscreet day scholar who could not resist the temptation of imparting it to a few confidential friends. And what became of the bottle of champagne, you ask? Oh, why that was drunk by Monsieur L’Es- tomac, Reve Bacue. ——— +ee. —___ Saturday Smiles. Perspiration never reigns but it pores.— Drake's Magazine, Stranger in western town—‘What is the death rate?” Native—“Nawthin’, sir, atall. Ye kin die fer nawthin’ at all. No rates here. It's terrible high down ter Gulchville, though.”—Lawrence American, The bosoms of her sister states swell with leasure at the enormous cotton crops of 'exas, — Courier-Journal, Accepted Suitor—‘‘Won't you find it awkward when you meet your other two husbands in eetatereaing Wido' ‘I do not expect to t res w— not ex) mee’ either of them there.”—Life, Some men are born great, some men achieve —— and some can curve a ball.— “This,” said Mra. riggins, ‘is the only silk I ever had that ara 't wear @ bit shiny, and it’s just a little shiny obeper's Bazar. “Have you read ‘The Mill on the Floss,’ Miss Susie?” he asked of the Mississippi belle. 0, Thaven’t,” she replied, —. “T think Gov. Lowry was right, and I wouldn’t read about a disgusting prize fight for anything!”—Mobile Register. ‘When you feel like calling s big man e lar, be sure you're right, then use the telephone,— Life, “Pat is thet true that I hear?” “‘An’ what's that, yer honor?” “That you are to marry again” “That's 0, yer honor.” “Bat your first wife has only been dead a ik. “Shyre she’s as dead now as she iver will be, yer honor.” —Pick-Me-Up. A bachelor who lives in Newark; N. J., and who has always hada fear that his wife might _ a — a a py tiesto struck him. Heis goi marrys 1, because he can tate to her.—Drake’s lagazine, A Poet’s Dream.—Miss Gushley—‘“I so often pee some one en of as being beautiful as a oet’s dream, you poets have more beau- Rtar dreams than we common mortals?” Mr, A, Tennyson Fizzle—“I hardly know. I erally dream of boripepome, steaks, fried shiskens, and that sort o! ."— Terre Haute Make irmative. not? Mrekcnaeent d and gazed cease ee or toe and af “I pray you let me take sweet lips a kiss: Haw left its crimeon plows et she head, Mod anewered iss, "Moy bol s “The Sou, Young Wife—‘“You are not going out to- tht, are you?” jusband—‘‘Yes, my dear; I must go back to veka. pt ence haarad Tm afraid T'll be os: 2 te. . W.—"‘Not here to the ys going anyw: except PW ewen, then, step into Strong Smell & way down. They'll be ‘until 8 o'clock. Tess couple of maacbecal’ bring them home with you when you come.” He—‘How beautiful and of “dhe —Fes, ana Kissimee.” Which he did if he was any good.—Lawrence The Shah and the Eiffel Tower. ‘From a Paris Letter. They succeeded on Saturday in getting shah up to the first floor of Eiffel tower, not all the blandishments of M. Berger get him farther. As for the lifts he would look at them. After much discussion he 8 f cbiize j q i i i K £ i iF Te 1889-TWELVE PAGES ‘Written for Tes Evexrse stan. TOWN AIRS AND GRACES. Convenient Appliances for Cooking and Keeping Cool in Summer. THE COOKING BOX AND ITS ADVANTAGES TO WOMEN—A MCDEL REFRIGERATOR—PARTITIONS ‘IN HOUSES—BATH TURS OF INDURATED FIBER— ADVICE ABOUT HEALTH AND COMPLEXION. We must eat if it is summer, and that neces- sity adds fearfully to the distress and mortality of heated months, Itis a very serious fact that many women die every summer from over- work and overheating. They could endure the work if it were not for the heat of that moloch of a cooking stove. Kerostne stoves are a great boon, but even an oil stove equal to the needs of family creates oppressive heat. The ideal arrangement is the square, close-shut japanned box, about 2 feet square, on four high legs, under a tin hood higher than one’s head, with pipe connected with the chim- ney. A large entry lamp under the box sup- plies the heat, Lifting the cover of the box, behold a complete cooking battery of white ware jars, one with chicken, another with beef roasting, three more with vegetables and dumplings light as sponge. Another pair hold brown bread loaves steaming to perfec- tion; a square tin holds a loaf of white bread which will be finished in the oven at one side. Observe the conveni- ence, The cooking box is so high there is no stooping to stir the food or look in the oven. There is no anxiety about burning food in these thick pots of fire-proof ware, so nicely is the heat adjusted, and consequently no burn- ing or withering women’s faces standing over the fire. The box or oven, as you please, is of per pulp, fire proof as iron, with the excel- lent property of conveying no heat into the air, All heat and odor when opened are drawn at once into the chimney by the tin hood, under which one might fry fish without any one in the next room being wiser. The idea of the cook- ing box is an old one, used by the shrewd peasantry abroad and approved by every old writer on the economy of! on, but it has been improved and developed. It simply re- duces the expense of fuel and the heat felt to the lowest degree, while making cookery absolutely an exact science in ractice. The flavor imparted or, rather, leveloped in such cooking, the tenderness and richness of meats, the sweetness of bread and fine quality of vegetables, is remarkable, and the gain in substance of food pays for the oil burned thrice over. The whole process is so free of all the evils of common cooking that one would imagine women reaching for th new invention en masse, but the intense con- servatism of ordinary women in all matters outside their self-interest stands stupidly una- ware whata lightening of their burdens is here vaya Such an invention would do more for them than the ballot if they only knew it, and I think the western women will know how to appreciate it. WOOD-PULP REFRIGERATOR. The value of the cooking ever depends on the non-conducting property of paper pulk. What is good to keep heat in will keep it out, and the next — of the material is the convenient refrigerator of compressed wood pulp, This has the advantage of not needing double walls and being light enough to wheei into any place, unlike the common behemoth refrigerators. ' The ideal refrigerator of wood pulp is decorated with nickel piate, scrolls and oil pictures, to be ornamental enough for an or- dinary dining room or side hall. To my taste the decoration is its only drawback, being too much in cheap chromo style. When will deal- ers learn to send outa few at least of their household wares in severely good and plain finish to suit artistic notions? But we must forgive its panel of lakes and mountains and gilt finishes for its lightness and cleanliness till good taste has its renaissance in manufacture ag well asart. This refrigerator is a nice thin for a] ents, being oval in thape, a yar: high by 22 inches through and dao only forty pounds, The ice is pt: no the top and the provision chamber has a fi circulation of air, with a large door, which \.ill commend it- self to every housekeeper. THE ENGLISH PLAN. The demand in cities now by families who have been abroad and found the immense ad- vantage of some foreign ways is for lodgings on the English plan, where rooms are let fur- nished and people buy what they fancy for food, and the landlady cooks and serves it for acertain sum extra, By this way people get more variety and more to their own tastes than in the usual boarding-house fare, with more economy and entire’ privacy. They pay the market price for every article they consume, and only for what they have and pay the hostess’ price for cookery and service. For such ce a all sorts of nice, portable, well- finished domestic contrivances will be in demand—and such a refrigarator as this wood- fiber one will not be the least benefit—where each family can keep its food with proper san- itary precautions and none of the ‘‘cold-meat” suspicions which sound so vulgar in English lodging house novels, With this there will be no need to keep the baby’s milk on the window sill, or the mamma's bottle of porter, if she a have that apsepoad compound, or any eeping ginger pots and Swiss fruit among the tooth Censites Raa medicine bottles in the dressing closet. CONVENIENT BATH TUBS, Next comes the indurated fiber bath tub, which is a boon in houses without complete water service. It is a question m country or suburbs, where the prices of water service are exhorbi- tant, whether itis not best to adopt emit pera plans. The cost of water service woul: vee complete set of cisterns, with filters, roof tank and bath, with the certainty of being free from water tax for a lifetime and the etill greater as- surance of perfectly pure water, not likely to be cut off by any town emergency. I have in too many houses where “the water didn’t run” in the very time it was most wanted, be- cause factories were using it or higher bouses cut off the flow, to seta high value on muni. cipal improvements, This fiber bath tub is o7 of the independent fixtures the householder is proud of, It is large size and deep, molded in one piece, movable and lined with white enamel, the outside in cabinet finish, The material holds the heat longer than metal tubs, and by a simple lam; connection the water can be heated in the tul or a connecting boiler without heating the down-stairs fire—a great advantage in summer sickness, when a hot bath in case of cramp or rheumatic fever is salvation. For well there is no treatment so hot bath, which leaves one by contrast. is indi nt, A a in cosmetic luxurious fixture is the seat bath, a square tub, higher back than front, in which one sits at such a height that a wide ” can be directed — the hips or any puted the not jinistering such a shock asthe rer This raying is invaluable in spinal diseases or abdom disorders, and such an appliance well used would often save the expense of a journey for health to comfortless and crowded t as the MOVABLE PARTITIONS Weare borrowing from the Japanese their very sensible way of dividing the interior of a house by movable i Builders i i Hi i “ sli i i as Hi EEE £ ute > Can you tell me of any means of producing color in the checks end lips? Not rouge of any Ishot or warm water better for the face? I suppose it is neod- less after this to say 1am troubled with indi- — and naturally suffer from obstruction. am still young enough at twenty-six to wis to appear as well as ible, and ha bdeauty-loving husband whom I do not wish compare me unfavorably with others of my ind. THE TREATMENT OF THE CASE. This letter is given at length as one of a type frequently received. It points clearly to the treatment of its case. The young wife, consti- tutionally lymphatic, taking less and less ex- ercise, finds m impaired and her looks suffer accordingly. A good old-fashioned bolus to start will at once reduce the circulating fluids and flesh perceptibly. Take 20 grains falar. 3 grains cloves, and a heaping teaspoon- ful cream of tartar, mixed in a littie water, as night dose, once. Follow with compound licorice powder each night for a week. At the same time furnish the coarse grabam bread, which,I regret to say, is seldom found in bakeries, as it should be. Ihave no less a thority than Mr. Edward Atkinson for # opinion that any person who wishes to make fortune could do so by selling good bread across the counter at five cents a loaf, and I have been strongly tempted to go into the bread-making musiness my- self from the impossibility of getting sound, healthy bread any other way. Bread to make women's complexions clear and their forms round without ungainliness, should be of flour from sound wheat washed, dried and atone coasely between stone, without any olting. This is the flour for strength, spirit and health; the food for athletes and beauties. It should be freshly ground. and I hope we may soon see wheat brought from the west, so that we may select it at the grocer’s and have it ground to order, weekly or monthly at far- thest. THE RIGHT KIND OF BREAD. The difference between bread from such flour and the poor corrugated stuff, so fine that it loses flavor and savor in its long keeping, is to be felt, not conveyed. I was brought up in a wheat-raising country and know what bread ought to be. As a substitute, get the best gra- ham or “whole wheat flour,” as it called,which has no loss by bolting. Probably the use of such bread for six months would reduce flesh and bring color without other treatment. But life is short and the process may rwarded by taking a spoonful of fluid magnesia after each meal or when acidity felt, green vegegetables, gelatine jellies and watery fruit should form the diet, drinking freely of water and lemonade daily to promote intestinal action, THREE TIMES A WEEK A WARM BATH should be taken of strong soap suds from clean soft, soap if possible—if not, from castile soap— and the body should remain in the water ten or fifteen minutes to soften the dead skin, which should be thoroughly rubbed off with a coarse cloth till no more peels from the sur- face. This practice will stimulate the circula- tion and the loofa may be used mornings on rising for dry friction. It should not cost over 25cents. For the pimples, when itching, bathe the face with the juice of alarge lemon in nearly a pint of water or with « lotion of 25 grains sulphate of zinc in a pint of rose water, or try the old and excellent wash—1 dram gum camphor dissolved in 2 ounces of alcohol, with 2 ms lac sulphur (milk of sulphur) and two ounces of water. Wet old linen with this and lay on the face five minutes at night, letting the skin dry without wiping. To secure good color rub the cheeks well with the palm just before going out for a brisk walk. This will create a tendency of blood to the surface of the face, anda little friction at odd times will keep it up, aided by the coarse bread and fruit, which seems to create color. Exercise is indispensable. If very inert take half a glass of claret with as much water at dinner, adding half a teaspoonful of acid phosphate. CORPULENT BODY AND LEAN LIMBS. “Inquirer” wishcs to know how the sizeof the limbs may be increased anda corpulant body diminished. Lessen the corpulence first, taking the advice given above, and then accns- tom yourself to active exercise. People grow corpulent because they fall into slow halite, They should go about quickly, time themselves to do nm in short space, and work hard. But get rid of the fiesh first by jalap and cream of tartar, followed by small daily doses of salts, LADIES’ GOODS. JRONTS! FRONTS!! FRONTS!!! Just the thing for Summer. ‘Always in order by plain combine, o Mure. M. 3, PR. 1820 F st. bw. (irs Inaporter Fine French: Hair Goods. eu7-lin* ; Te REAL Balto at, Balto. Ma. Washitut on ISTRiC BUF sé, Masonic espe. RENCH DYEING. SCOURING AND DRY OLEAN- BRS ESTABLISHMENT. 1505 Rew X First Ladies’ and Geuts’ work of every Soe Flush, Velvet and Pveuing Dreseus., AN CAROLINE LERCH, tormeriy with A Piscer “ tion. 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